Peretz at the New Republic: Yes, I know that there is much that they [Palestinians] must accomplish among their [sic] to really become a nation and have a history as a people. But, whether we gloat or weep about these…
From the Bangladesh paper, Blitz, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury: In 2007, before I met David Harris, it was beyond my imagination that being the one of the finest public servants of the Jewish world, a person, extremely influential with personal…
I’m proud we were able to publish Bruce Wolman’s fabulous account of the Jerusalem Post’s bogus story on anti-Semitism in Norway yesterday. It drew this comment from Richard Silverstein, who was unable to post it for some reason. We’re workin…
This is Gaza’s Passover. As Jews approach the great festival days of liberation, I promise you we are all thinking about Israel and Palestine in the wake of the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian children. Some of these thoughts are…
Bruce Wolman, who reads the Norwegian press, offers this important report: It may be difficult for Americans to believe, but a disputed Jerusalem Post article asserting that Norway is rife with anti-Semitism continues to reverberate in the Norwegian media one…
I believe the Israel lobby is dying a death by a thousand cuts. Will take a while. Two more congresspeople have gone to Gaza. One is Bob Inglis, a Republican from South Carolina! The other is Stephen Lynch, a Boston…
David Bromwich has a fabulous post on ways that aristocracy perpetuates itself–Larry Summers’s payday. And he offers this comment on James North’s piece on Mahmood Mamdani’s Darfur book, posted here yesterday: The report confirms a suspicion about the way the…
If I made a mistake (and I make a lot of ’em), along the lines of the Times running a piece on the Madoff case by Daphne Merkin, blaming the victims for their credulity but not telling readers that she’s…
Two new reports tell more of the horror stories of the war in Gaza and its devastating damage. First, a great report from Anjali Kamat for Democracy Now entitled “Land of Ruins: A Special Report on Gaza’s Economy.” And Jewish…